DUNDEE’S SECOND and concluding tour match with Borussia Moenchengladbach tonight in Bramberg will see them pitted against a club that’s been similarly active in the transfer market this summer.

It has been all change for Moenchengladbach since a draw with Borussia Dortmund on the final day of last season spared them involvement in play-offs that would have threatened their Bundesliga place.

Coach Hans Meyer quit just days after ensuring Moenchengladbach retained their top-flight status, to be replaced by one-time Borussia player and assistant coach Michael Frontzeck.

The summer has seen German international midfielder Marko Marim sold to Werder Bremen.

But Moenchengladbach have, like Dundee, been busily adding to their pool in the shape of Argentinian striker Raul Bobadilla (recruited from Grasshoppers Zurich), Venezuelan international captain and left sided midfielder Juan Arango (Real Mallorca) and fellow midfielders Thorben Marx from Armenia Bielfield, Marco Reus (Rot-Weiss Ahlen), Roman Neustadler (FSV Mainz) and Marcel Meeuwis (Roda Kerkrade).

Borussia, whose campaign gets under way on August 1 with a DFB cup meeting with FSV Frankfurt, returned to training on June 23 and this will be their second serious pre-season friendly. They lost their traditional curtain-raiser 2-0 to Steve McLaren’s Twente Enschede last Tuesday.

The Germans suffered a further setback within the last few days with the news that Belgian international goalkeeper Logan Bailly has a broken metatarsal.

Their best known players are 69-times capped former German international striker Oliver Neuville, who is still going strong at 36, and Canadian former Spurs and Fulham defender Paul Stalteri.

Numbers having been reduced by Rab Douglas returning home and Bryan Deasley being unable to link up with the squad, and with two games requiring to be played in 24 hours, Jocky Scott was forced to abandon plans to play one team in the baking heat of Walchsee last night, an almost entirely different one this evening and keep substitutions over the two matches to the bare minimum.

“With there being no rest day in between the matches the original idea had to go out the window,” said Scott, “especially with the temperature we had to contend with against Augsburg.”

Scott’s selection decision for tonight has also been affected by the fact defender Craig McKeown, who was to be a substitute against Augsburg last night, pulled out of the warm-up because of a groin problem.